Recent British Railway Clock Finds.

This page will showcase any recent rare Railway clocks that have come to
light.

These are not for Sale.

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Great Western Railway Rosewood
cased 12 inch drop dial.

An extremely rare and desirable
example of a very early GWR clock, the case is made out of
rosewood veneered pine in the saltbox style and features ebony
and brass inlays, the pendulum suspends from the top of the back
box not the movement. There are only four of this type
known to exist and all differ slightly in decoration, the dial
has been rewritten circa 1950 by John Walker when this clock was transferred
over to the Southern Region of British Railways the clock dates from around 1845.
From Mortimer Station Waiting Room.

A small oak cased wall mounted weight driven
regulator supplied to the LBSCR in 1863 at a cost of £12-10-0d by Richard Webster of Cornhill St London this clock spent all
of it's railway working life in the Brighton area, firstly at
Kemp Town signal box and then at the assistant station masters
office Brighton station, it was sold to a member of the station
staff on 18th august 1953.The
clock is in totally original condition and survives with its
original LBSCR painted dial and original LBSCR label inside.
Richard Webster supplied 44 of this type of clock to the LBSCR
for use in signal boxes this is one of the earlier numbered
examples and is in the rarer oak as opposed to teak case.The
regulator movement has six spoked wheels, deadbeat
escapement, Harrison's maintaining power and a deal pendulum rod
with a cast zinc cylindrical bob which is suspended from the
backboard. Richard Webster of Cornhill supplied just over 350 clocks
to the LBSCR between 1851 and 1878.

Another remarkable survivor this 12 inch mahogany cased wall clock was supplied
by Skarratt of Worcester to the Rhondda & Swansea Bay Railway company probably
on its opening in 1885. This is the only known wall clock to have survived from
this small Welsh railway company. The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway company
was opened 2/11/1885 and was then worked by the GET from 1/1/1906 and
eventually became part of the GWR at the grouping in 1922.

Southern Railway 12 inch dial mahogany cased fusee clock Ex Waterloo.

What a survivor ! This is the
only fully titled Southern Railway clock that has ever surfaced,
dials are usually written just plain S.R. but this one is the
exception. It was purchased from Waterloo station in the early
1970's by an employee who still owns the clock, this might have
been used in one of the Southern Railway hotels as they had
quite a few unnumbered clocks.

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I am always interested in
purchasing any fusee clock, wall clock, mantle
clock and weight driven clocks from the Great Western Railway,
Southern Railway, London and South Western Railway, London Brighton and
South Coast Railway, South Eastern Railway, Midland
Railway, LMS, GWR, BR(S), BR(E), BR(W) and any John Walker Railway Clocks.